The warden who guards the witches.

Deadline for Revenge

"...... It's a normal occurrence, her time limit is almost up." Standing in the corridor outside the confinement room, Arsenal said with a cold face.

　　"What deadline?" Aiden asked smoothly.

　　"The deadline for returning the corpse. A necromancy, after all, is the use of necromancy to forcibly reattach a disgruntled spirit that has left the body to the corpse, so that it can continue to linger in the world with the aid of vengeful resentment. This spell actually has a duration, usually only about a year." Arsenal said holding up a finger.

　　"That means from the beginning she only had a year to get her revenge?"

　　"Yes. The effect of returning the soul doesn't wear off until the enemy is successfully killed. But if the time limit is reached, the spell will be forcibly lifted, regardless of whether or not her revenge is successful." Arsenal held up her glasses.

　　"And how does this relate to her suddenly becoming like this?" Aiden pressed on.

　　"It's a characteristic of the returning corpse, if the revenge has been unsuccessful, the closer the deadline is, the deeper her vengeful grudge will become, and the strength of the grudge is determined by the strength of the grudge. It's similar to the 'return of light' when a person is about to die; a living person may temporarily regain vitality when they are on the verge of death, and a grudge spirit's grievances will increase dramatically when they are about to be forced to pass on to the afterlife." Arsenal explained in detail in a professional tone.

　　Aiden fell into deep thought after listening.

　　That meant that Silk Rein's magic power had suddenly risen simply because of her characteristics as a Corpse Demon itself.

　　Silk Rhine also seemed to be able to sense that her end was near, so she became more and more insistent on exacting revenge on Carmilla.

　　This would be a not-so-small hidden danger to the prison administration.

　　Leaving aside the question of whether or not she would have the chance to kill Carmilla after her resentment increased, the strong resentment emanating from her body would be enough to pose a threat to the other inmates and prison guards.

　　Theoretically, if the operational strength of the prison boundary was strengthened, it should be able to suppress Silk Rein's power, but then the cost of keeping the boundary running would also go up quite a bit - just for the sake of a single inmate, it obviously wasn't cost-effective. As the hand of the prison, he also had to think about allocating the prison's resources wisely.

　　Managing a prison, one would always encounter this kind of prisoner that made one's brain hurt.

　　"Is there any simpler way to deal with this problem?" Aiden asked Asenna, who was an expert in necromancy, for a method.

　　"The easiest way ......," Arsenal raised her hand and pointed to the confinement room where Silhouette was, and then to the room where Carmilla was in the distance, "is to take care of one of them, and use necromancy to beat the necromancer until her soul is broken. Or help her take out her enemies."

　　To death has long been accustomed to the necromancers thinking about the solution to the dead road is always so refreshingly unorthodox, if they can rely on killing people to solve the problem ...... they basically choose to kill people.

　　Admittedly, the simplest and most straightforward way to solve a problem was to directly solve the person who created the problem.

　　But Aiden obviously couldn't use this method.

　　"If I could just execute the culprits once and for all, then there wouldn't be many people left in the core area." Aiden sighed while rolling his eyes, "Please change to a feasible method."

　　"I can put an extra seal on the necromancer to temporarily suppress her increased power." Arsenal thought about it and replied, "When it's delayed until her deadline is up, she'll naturally disappear."

　　"Then, how long will it take?"

　　"It's impossible to say, but from the looks of this current situation, it shouldn't take more than two months at the longest."

　　"That's as good as it gets." After a moment of silence, Aiden nodded in response.

　　His duty was to maintain order in the prison, and while what happened to Silk Rein's body was certainly worthy of sympathy, there was no way he would abandon his position and allow the other party to commit crimes in his prison because of it.

　　Suppressing Silk Rein's power and strengthening her supervision until she died of hatred was the most correct thing to do in his position right now.

　　After giving a proper explanation of the scene to his subordinates, Aiden returned to his office and prepared to take a short rest.

　　But just as he had sat down on the chair, before his bum was even warmed up, there was a knock on the door of his office.

　　Aiden sighed helplessly and opened his mouth to shout, "Come in."

　　Isabella, the young prison guard in charge of the core area, walked into the office and saluted Aiden, "Sir!"

　　"Isabella? As I recall, you should be on duty at the ...... meeting reception today, right?" Aiden suddenly remembered, "Can I help you?"

　　Every day, people would come to the prison to apply to meet with the prisoners, and most of them were friends and relatives of the prisoners or lawyers. Isabella's post on duty today was to receive these people.

　　"Yes, a young man who wants to meet with a core area prisoner just came in, but the situation is a bit special, so I came over to ask for your permission." Isabella reported respectfully.

　　Normally, as long as the prisoner is in prison and there is still a chance for a meeting, the prisoner's relatives and friends or lawyers, who want to meet the prisoner can be approved directly.

　　However, if the prisoner has a situation within the prison, it would need to be approved by the Prison Affairs Section and the prison leadership.

　　"Who does he want to see?"

　　"He wants to see prisoner 3271," Isabella said carefully.

　　"Silhouette?" Aiden frowned slightly, "Who is he with Silk Rhine?"

　　"He claims to be the nephew of prisoner 3271."

　　"Where did that necromancer get a nephew?" Aiden was slightly taken aback.

　　He knew Silk Rein's situation; Silk Rein was a widow and had no siblings, and her only relative was her son, who had been killed in a gangland firefight a year ago.

　　"But looking at the meeting logs, he has also been here three times during the year, inmate 3271 has agreed to see him, and he has brought money and objects to inmate 3271." Isabella clarified.

　　If the prisoner's side is unwilling to acknowledge the relationship with the person he met with and does not agree to the meeting, then naturally the meeting cannot be established.

　　In that case, at least this so-called "nephew" had some friendship with Silk Rein.

　　"But right now, prisoner 3271 is in solitary confinement for a week, so according to the rules, there is no way to meet." Aiden shook his head.

　　"I've already told him so." Isabella's expression looked rather helpless, "But he insisted that he wanted to meet with the prison's leadership or he wouldn't leave. That, sir ......," Isabella cautiously looked at Aiden's face and asked for instructions, "Do you need me to have the riot squad kick him out?"

　　Aiden thought for a moment and finally waved his hand, "No, arrange a meeting room for him, I'll go over and meet him now."

　　He suddenly remembered the fact that Arsenal had just informed him - the time Silk Rhine had left, was running out.

　　If this person who had come to meet with Silk Rein was really related to Silk Rein in some way, then as prison guards, they were obligated to inform each other of this matter.